I posted about my new plans for the year in another post and then decided I should highlight them in a post of their own.
Last night I sat down and reevaluated. I decided I absolutely didn’t want to give up on my big plans for the year, despite the month and a half I’ve fallen behind.
I want to challenge myself to do something amazing this year. So here’s what I ended up with.
I set aside the following time for writing, daily, including weekends: 8–11 am & 2–3 pm. It adds up to 28 hours a week.
I figured it based on some ridiculously grand plans I have for the year. But those plans aren’t so ridiculous at all, if I actually put in the damn writing time. The only reason they’re “ridiculously grand” is because I still haven’t shown that I can write more than 268,191 in a year. In fact, my average for 3.5 years is 252,190 because I appear to be quite regular on an annual basis with my irregular output!
But I want 2016 to be the year that changes. Therefore, the plans…
Novels: 6 x 60,000
Novels: 12 x 50,000
Short stories: 12 x 10,000
Novellas: 4 x 25,0001,180,000 words / 12 months = 98,333 words / 4 hours a day = 3,233 @ 808 wph
Yes, that’s a higher WPH than my average. But there’s a benefit to squeezing the amount of work you need to do into a shorter amount of time. It’s been proven time and again that if most people have time to waste, they’ll waste it. I want to stop wasting so much time so I can write more.
Because there are two variables to the writing more equation: time and speed.
Spend more time and do it faster. Combine the two and you have two multipliers instead of one.
Yes, these are big plans. But I can do it if I get out of my own way.
This is a challenge and I’m going to give it a name—as soon as I think of one! :D